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DEOXIDIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they deoxidize ... he / she / it deoxidizes
Past simple: deoxidized
Past participle: deoxidized
-ing form: deoxidizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
To remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "deoxidize" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "deoxidize"):
benficiate (subject to a reduction process)
pole (deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Antonym:
oxidize (add oxygen to or combine with oxygen)
